I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
AGNES MARTINTo progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself It is like a wave it makes itself up,It rushes forward getting nowhere really it crashes
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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy.
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Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It’s the most abstract of all art expression.
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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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Withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution
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What I say is that we’re capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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